EFF is a private organization. Right now you respect them. By morning they could be a wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company owned by Microsoft. And I'm not saying which morning.
Unfortunately they were. There were no WMD, Saddam was not a threat, and it distracted us from finishing up in Afghanistan, which is now a total tar-pit. There are only two reasons Bush went into Iraq: 1) Oil. 2) political bump from fighting a shooting war closer to the 2004 election cycle.
It's not at all surprising that the former monopolists are the new monopolists. The inability to act in accordance with the spirit of the law is a mental disease.
It's ideal for TV. Much less bandwidth limitation than people think. 1000 channels on DirecTV, some of them on-demand, 3-D, 1080p, or interactive gaming. I only use my local cable company as an ISP any more.
AT&T shareholders just watched their management pay way too much for T-mobile. T-mobile and AT&T employees are both now extremely fearful for their jobs, as there is almost 100% overlap in most markets in everything but customer service call centers. This goes all the way up the management chains.
This is less like "joining forces" than conquering your neighbor by buying his mortgage from the bank for double the house's value, then throwing him and his kids and your wife out on the street.
If you look around, there are plenty of people saying this is a war for oil, and asking why we aren't acting in Bahrain or Yemen. And it's the same ones who said Iraq was a war for oil. They think since they were right then they're right now.
To state that would be spin if that was the stated intent. But it isn't. The stated intent is to make the enemy surrender, and not for psychological reasons but for obvious ones. Fight us and you will die. Make a move and you will die. Blink and you will die. Pretty clear-cut. No psychological effect required. Logic suffices.
It's only propaganda if it's not backed up by the utter inevitability of its coming true.
As for whether any ship that moves will actually be attacked, well, Libya's not that big a place, and we're going to run out of ground targets pretty quick, and there's a lot of guys who will want to shoot something. First skipper to risk it will be an example for the rest, at the very least. Beyond that, someone will have to come up with hard intel showing that our side has run out of ammo and coffee before anyone can make a reasonable claim that there's a nonzero chance of surviving another attempt.
Well, the difference between the Star Wars movies and those 3 pretenders is the change in writers and directors. Although if the change had been for the better, not the worse, we'd have a whole different take on the prequels.
Whereas in this case, it's the same dude, and it may not be different enough to make it truly interesting.
And it's merely a presumption that the information being transmitted was accurate.
Weasel: Here! I'm over here Ack-Ack: I have you now, infidel! (*budda-budda-budda*) Weasel: Ahem. Ack-Ack: (spinning) Curses! Weasel: Fox 1! Ack-Ack: (exploding) grrrrrrrglglglglg
A safety warning that is, in essence, 100% true and unvarnished, isn't propaganda per se. There's no ulterior anything to it. And it will save the lives of boat captains who thought they could just wander out of port and avoid the fight, who would have found the irony of being blown out of the water somewhat un-funny.
is extremely unpopular with the majority of people in the US
The gross number depends on how you word the question, but no. It's not. It's got the usual suspects up in arms (ironic metaphor there, eh?) about various things. The peaceniks who would decry a cop shooting the person trying to kill them are of course making their noise. And since it's a Democrat President who signed the orders the entirety of the GOP is acting into the microphone like it's a travesty against the Constitution, while masturbating under the table to the images on the screen.
Regime change in Libya is a laudable goal, and destroying Momar's ability to stop Libyans from enacting it it is a proper use of the world's risk-delivery systems.
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EFF is a private organization. Right now you respect them. By morning they could be a wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company owned by Microsoft. And I'm not saying which morning.
Unfortunately they were. There were no WMD, Saddam was not a threat, and it distracted us from finishing up in Afghanistan, which is now a total tar-pit. There are only two reasons Bush went into Iraq: 1) Oil. 2) political bump from fighting a shooting war closer to the 2004 election cycle.
You misread it.
The bank got the $39 billion.
The neighbor got the air.
Ooh! where'd it go?
Is it.....................over there?
Or is it...over there?
Given how much money it made, and that Hollywood is still owned by suits with no imagination, it's merely inevitable.
I used to pass 7 different supermarkets on the way home from work.
Now I pass 5 stores with only 2 names on them. And they both carry the same crap off the same boat from Chile.
It's not at all surprising that the former monopolists are the new monopolists. The inability to act in accordance with the spirit of the law is a mental disease.
You don't think that there would have been more iPhones sold if the data coverage had been more than a Starbucks in Chelsea?
It's ideal for TV. Much less bandwidth limitation than people think. 1000 channels on DirecTV, some of them on-demand, 3-D, 1080p, or interactive gaming. I only use my local cable company as an ISP any more.
AT&T shareholders just watched their management pay way too much for T-mobile. T-mobile and AT&T employees are both now extremely fearful for their jobs, as there is almost 100% overlap in most markets in everything but customer service call centers. This goes all the way up the management chains.
This is less like "joining forces" than conquering your neighbor by buying his mortgage from the bank for double the house's value, then throwing him and his kids and your wife out on the street.
You're like some sort of kitty chasing a laser-pointer.
Kucinich is a comic-book personality. What he thinks might happen and what happens are rarely correlated.
If you look around, there are plenty of people saying this is a war for oil, and asking why we aren't acting in Bahrain or Yemen. And it's the same ones who said Iraq was a war for oil. They think since they were right then they're right now.
To state that would be spin if that was the stated intent. But it isn't. The stated intent is to make the enemy surrender, and not for psychological reasons but for obvious ones. Fight us and you will die. Make a move and you will die. Blink and you will die. Pretty clear-cut. No psychological effect required. Logic suffices.
It's only propaganda if it's not backed up by the utter inevitability of its coming true.
F'rinstance, this guy is using propaganda:
http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/july/papr/gophersnake.html
this guy is not:
http://www.desertusa.com/may96/du_rattle.html
As for whether any ship that moves will actually be attacked, well, Libya's not that big a place, and we're going to run out of ground targets pretty quick, and there's a lot of guys who will want to shoot something. First skipper to risk it will be an example for the rest, at the very least. Beyond that, someone will have to come up with hard intel showing that our side has run out of ammo and coffee before anyone can make a reasonable claim that there's a nonzero chance of surviving another attempt.
Well, the difference between the Star Wars movies and those 3 pretenders is the change in writers and directors. Although if the change had been for the better, not the worse, we'd have a whole different take on the prequels.
Whereas in this case, it's the same dude, and it may not be different enough to make it truly interesting.
Yet somehow you feel the need to hide your fake identity when admitting that.
You might ask the Chinese how that can happen.
LOTR was okay. The remake will no doubt be better (except for the inevitable downgrade in the Arwen department).
But there were like 18 hours of it. Left me somewhat burnt out.
Unless Jackson has significantly altered his style I'm not sure The Hobbit will feel like anything new.
Hey. The enemy doesn't know that.
You seem to be a particularly poor troll. Here, have a cookie: @
And it's merely a presumption that the information being transmitted was accurate.
Weasel: Here! I'm over here
Ack-Ack: I have you now, infidel! (*budda-budda-budda*)
Weasel: Ahem.
Ack-Ack: (spinning) Curses!
Weasel: Fox 1!
Ack-Ack: (exploding) grrrrrrrglglglglg
A safety warning that is, in essence, 100% true and unvarnished, isn't propaganda per se. There's no ulterior anything to it. And it will save the lives of boat captains who thought they could just wander out of port and avoid the fight, who would have found the irony of being blown out of the water somewhat un-funny.
is extremely unpopular with the majority of people in the US
The gross number depends on how you word the question, but no. It's not. It's got the usual suspects up in arms (ironic metaphor there, eh?) about various things. The peaceniks who would decry a cop shooting the person trying to kill them are of course making their noise. And since it's a Democrat President who signed the orders the entirety of the GOP is acting into the microphone like it's a travesty against the Constitution, while masturbating under the table to the images on the screen.
Regime change in Libya is a laudable goal, and destroying Momar's ability to stop Libyans from enacting it it is a proper use of the world's risk-delivery systems.
The U.N. will never approve of it. Some of them dress that way too.
Doesn't matter. Southwest doesn't fly there and I refuse to use any other carrier, even to get to a carrier.